Category: women writers
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Lifting the Lid Festival 2025
I’m delighted to share that I’ll be presenting at the Lifting the Lid International Festival of Death and Dying again this year. The 5th annual festival lifts the lid on everything death and dying, through conversations, interactive events, workshops, art and craft sessions, live music, poetry and performance from around the…
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‘Keep the kōrero open’ book interview
Recently, I had the privilege to speak with friend and writerly colleague Michelle Elvy at Flash Frontier, about A Counter of Moons (interview link below). https://flashfrontier.com/keep-the-korero-open-iona-winter-talks-with-michelle-elvy-about-her-new-book-a-counter-of-moons-artwork-by-kirstie-mckinnon/ Responding to interviews about this book, while welcomed, hasn’t been easy. A Counter of Moons is the most vulnerable kind of writing I’ve done,…
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The book(s)
Kā mihi aroha ki a koutou, my loving thanks to everyone who has purchased and begun reading A Counter of Moons. In case you missed it, A Counter of Moons is available via Steele Roberts Aotearoa https://steeleroberts.co.nz/product/a-counter-of-moons/ or your local bookshop should have them in stock by now. The feedback…
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Queenstown Writers Festival
I had the privilege of being invited to facilitate a Flash Fiction Workshop this weekend, at the inaugural Queenstown Writers Festival. Imagine my surprise to find the event had sold out before I arrived! E hika! My wonderful group and I spent two hours exploring the form, and headed out…
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Part 2: other writers…
Kathryn van Beek is an Ōtepoti Dunedin based writer. Her children’s book ‘Bruce Finds a Home’ is about ‘New Zealand’s most famous cat’ who she found on the side of the road when he was just one day old Bruce the cat ✨ Kathryn is currently working on the next ‘Bruce the…
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Invitation
Nau mai haere mai. You’re invited to the book launch of then the wind came, my debut collection of stories and poetry. https://www.facebook.com/events/291350861706642/ If you can’t make the launch in Ōtepoti Dunedin, you are very welcome to contact the publisher directly for pre-order information. Details are on the event page.…
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Book reviews
Over the summer break I had the pleasure of reading two fabulous books, First Fox and Waitapu, by a couple of clever wāhine (women) authors from Aotearoa New Zealand. The reviews I wrote, for Landfall Review Online, can be found here: https://www.landfallreview.com/a-plume-of-glass-sparks/#more-3494 (picture taken in Ōtautahi Christchurch, NZ)
Iona Winter 